Orangutan Fighting to Protect His Home

Every
year, as a direct result of deforestation for palm oil, approximately
6,000 orangutans are killed. Not only is the ingredient (which is common
in household products) devastating animals’ natural habitats, it is
polluting the environment. Activists aren’t the only people distraught
by this fact. Orangutans and other animals who are being forced from
their homes are also less than pleased by humanity’s rampant greed. This
was made evident when International Animal Rescue captured footage of
an orangutan attempting to defend his home from loggers.

Watch the video here

As
The Independent reports, the footage was captured in 2013 but was only
recently released. The short clip shows a distraught orangutan walking
toward a bulldozer which is destroying his habitat in the Sungai Putri
forest in Borneo, Indonesia. After slapping the machine’s bucket, he
frantically tries to escape.